> On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 07:05:04PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: > > On 2000-03-01 23:42:21, Mary Honeycutt wrote: > > > > > I bought a larger hard-drive for my potato box and want > > > to transfer my system to it (preserving permissions, > > > symlinks, etc). > >
There used to be a very helpful Hard Disk Upgrade mini-HOWTO on the LDP which I could not find. But you might want to look at http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/suppor t/Linux/LDP/. Here the fact that it was not updated for almost half a year is a feature. > > partition (cfdisk, fdisk) the drive, format (mkfs) and mount the new > > drive. > > > > tar cf top_level_dirs; (cd /new_drive_monut_point; tar xpf -) > > I believe you'll have to pipe the output of the first tar to the second > process: > > tar cf - source | ( cd /target; tar xpf - ) > > > Probably need special provision for /dev (like cp -R) and you should > > not copy /proc, lost+found. > > I typically move one mount point/partition at a time when moving to a > new drive. > > There's a utility to recreate the lost+found directory if you do manage > to overwrite it -- it needs to sit on a specific inode for the filesystem > to be able to recover lost clusters properly. RTFM, it's there somewhere. > > > -- > Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? > > Scope out Scoop: http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/ > Nothin' rusty about Kuro5hin: http://www.kuro5hin.org/ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.